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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award for the class of '56. But for some reason John was falling far behind his M.I.T. classmates...
...Party, the largest outside the Iron Curtain, assembled in Rome's marbled Hall of Fascism last week to try to pick up the pieces. Gone were those reassuring symbols of unquestioned authority-the looming portraits of Stalin and his archangels. Gone, too, was the unshakable confidence of the rank and file in the pyrotechnic brilliance of Palmiro Togliatti, the man whom Italian Communists call // Migliore (The Best...
...freshman adviser: "We've got. to return to India. Please look after this boy." Little care was needed. Goheen made both the varsity soccer team and Phi Beta Kappa. After a year of graduate study, he carried the habit of success into the Army, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Ist Cavalry Division in the Pacific...
...Many Cars? Automen last week were brimming with optimism that 1957 car sales will rank second only to the 7,400,000 of 1955. Predicted G.M.'s Curtice: "The industry in 1957 should produce and the domestic market absorb approximately 6,500,000 cars and 900,000 trucks. Including export, production should approximate 8,300,000 cars and trucks." Curtice candidly admitted that a year ago he had been overoptimistic in anticipating a 6,500,000-car year for 1956. But this year, said he, "the supply of new cars in the hands of dealers on Jan. 1 will...
...revolt was uncoordinated, lacked funds and headquarters, had as its leader a little-known rank-and-filer named Don Rarick, 37, for 19 years a worker at U.S. Steel's Irvin works. A fortnight ago Rarick was also named to head the slate that will oppose the McDonald team in the union-wide elections next February. Said Rarick last week: "I dare McDonald to show that he's got as many steelworkers behind...